Keyboarding

Online Keyboard Instruction Site for Classrooms

Teachers can add students and set up typing lessons for class. Also get wpm scores for individual students. Students can access from home or school
http://www.sense-lang.org/teachers/login.php
This site can be used with the ten-week typing / formatting curriculum (see below)

Research and Data on Keyboarding

General Info:http://en.wordpress.com/tag/how-to-teach-keyboarding/
Should Keyboard Covers be used?: http://keyboarding.wordpress.com/category/research/
Keyboarding Research and Guidelines: http://keyboarding.wordpress.com/category/who-teaches-keyboarding/

Keyboarding Posture:

1. Sit up straight.
2. Center body to the "h" key with elbows at sides.
3. Place feet for balance.
4. Curve fingers over the home keys.
5. Keep wrists off the keyboard.
6. Keep eyes on printed copy.
7. Key by touch.

Keyboarding Resources for the Classroom:

http://jeffcoweb.jeffco.k12.co.us/isu/itech/keybo/keydx.htm

Keyboarding Rubric:

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/cgi-bin/keyboard.cgi

Basic Tutorial Sites:

PowerTyping: http://www.powertyping.com/
Learn Keyboard Typing: http://www.learnkeyboardtyping.com/
Typing Test Online: http://www.testmytyping.com/typing-tutorial.php
Keyboarding Practice: http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/cjh/appliedtech/Business/Keyboarding/d1homerow.html
Principles of Effective Learning: http://typing-lessons.org/index.php?e=preliminaries_2

Good Practice Sites:

Power Typing: http://www.powertyping.com/rain.shtml
Dance Mat Typing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
Keyboarding Skills: http://gamequarium.com/keyboarding3.htm
Baracuda Typing: http://www.powertyping.com/baracuda/baracuda.htm
Cup Stack Typing: http://www.novelgames.com/flashgames/game.php?id=5
Keyboarding Sign in: http://www.e-learningforkids.org/Courses/Keyboarding_Skills/index.html
Typer Shark:http://www.popcap.com/games/free/typershark
from Utah: http://www.uen.org/cc/uen/core/pub/displayCoreCourse.action?ccId=2033

Keyboarding ten-week formatting curriculum:

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